Wolfgang Philipp von und zu Guttenberg

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Coat of arms of the von Guttenberg family

Wolfgang Philipp Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (born July 29, 1647 at Marloffstein Castle in Marloffstein , Middle Franconia ; † December 4, 1733 in Valletta , Malta ) was a German Knight of Malta and commander of several commander of the order.

family

Wolfgang Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg was born in 1647 as the son of the Bamberg Council and Oberamtmann zu Neunkirchen-Schellenberg Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (approx. 1622–1683) and Maria Kunigunda Ursula nee. von Guttenberg zu Kirchlauter (1623–1681) born. He was the third oldest of ten siblings. Six of the siblings entered the clergy. Among them was the older brother Johann Gottfried , who became prince-bishop of the Würzburg monastery.

The Guttenberg family belonged to the Franconian nobility of the lines of Werdenau and von Eltz.

Life

In 1670, Wolfgang Philipp took the vows of the Knights of St. John ( Maltese since 1700 ) and probably lived most of the time in Malta .

Around 1680 he was initially commander of the commander in Rottweil. From 1695 to 1733 Commander was the commander in Kleinerdlingen as well as the combined commander of Bruchsal and Kron-Weißenburg . He let administrators manage his coming ones. The Kommende in Kleinerdlingen was administered by his brother Franz Dietrich, who was dean of the cathedral in Augsburg. In 1726 he was appointed titular Bailli of Brandenburg of the German tongue in Malta. He was also the treasurer of the German Order of Malta.

Wolfgang Philipp worked as a patron for the population. Among other things, he financed the chapel Our Lady of Mercy (“tal-Madonna tal-Óniena”) in Qrendi . near the Guttenberg headquarters. In Fontana he had wash houses built for the local women.

Grave slab (at the lower edge, only the upper part of the grave slab visible) with the coat of arms of Guttenberg in St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta

He died on December 4, 1733 in Malta. He was buried in St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, the former main church of the Order of St. John / Maltese. The tomb was designed by himself. It has a simple inscription which only gives its last titles and offices. It has the inscription «Fuit et tu non eris. ... Fumus, humus, sumus, et cinis est nostra ultima finis »(Eng. He was and you will not be. We are smoke, earth, and ashes are our last end. ). It has a particularly detailed depiction of the bone man.

literature

  • Johannes Bischoff: Genealogy of the ministerials from Blassenberg and barons from (and to) Guttenberg 1148–1970. Würzburg, 1971
  • Joseph August Ebe: Graves of German knights of the Order of St. John / Maltese in St. John's Church in Valletta on Malta. Melitensia, Paderborn, 1987 ISBN 3-9801071-2-4 (in the following abbreviated Ebe, graves of German knights with corresponding page number)
  • Michael Galea: Fra Wolfgang Philipp von und zu Guttenberg: A German Knight of Malta . Melitensia Funding Association 1982, ISBN 3980107108

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Nedopil: "German Adelsproben from the German Ordens-Central Archive (Volume 1)", Braumüller 1868
  2. ↑ Winfried Hecht: The Johanniterkommende Rottweil. 248 p., City Archives, Rottweil, 1971
  3. ↑ Annette Kossow: Malta with Gozo and Comino - travel guide by Iwanowski: Individual travel guide preview on Google Books , p.
  4. ↑ Ebe, Graves of German Knights, p. 53.
personal data
SURNAME Guttenberg, Wolfgang Philipp from and to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guttenberg, Wolfgang Philipp von; Guttenberg, Wolfgang Philipp Freiherr von und zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German knight of the Order of Malta
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Marloffstein Castle, Marloffstein , Middle Franconia
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1733
Place of death Valletta , Malta